unvenerable
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Adjective[edit]
unvenerable (comparative more unvenerable, superlative most unvenerable)
- Not venerable.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
- Sons of God, in opposition to Unjust and Sons of Belial, - which latter indeed are second-oldest, but yet a very unvenerable order.
- 2007 September 30, Pico Iyer, “A View of the Bosporus”, in New York Times[1]:
- This gift for taking the urgent issues of the day and presenting them as detective stories that race past like footfalls down an alleyway has made Pamuk the best-selling writer in the history of his native Turkey and the deserving winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, at the unvenerable age of 54.